BRUSSELS -- Since she started wearing a full Islamic veil six weeks ago, Selma said, she has been stared at, frowned at, muttered to, mocked as a "ghost" and forced by a policeman to lift her veil to ...

FOR MORE THAN a year after converting to the Muslim religion, the 20-year-old Houston woman had worn her short, blond hair under a scarf in accordance with Islamic rule. Then on Sept. 11, fearing ...

The British were among the most vocal critics of the French ban–back when they were still quite pleased with their own multicultural model. But on October 5, ex-foreign minister Jack Straw revealed ...

ATHENS, Greece - Earlier this year on an Arabic Web site, a Muslim woman scholar posted an open letter to the Islamic world. "Take off the veil, sister," began Elham Manea, a professor of Yemeni ...

(Reuters) - The wearing of Muslim face veils and headscarves in schools and at work is a sensitive topic across Europe. Here is a summary of policy in some key countries: Mainly Muslim but secular ...

PARIS -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Wednesday ordered legislation that would ban women from wearing Islamic veils that hide the face in the street and other public places. In seeking to ...

CAIRO - When Egypt's government banned Islamic veils and all-encompassing robes in the dorms of public universities, it cited reports of men wearing the garb to sneak into the women's quarters. But ...

PARIS (AP) — The world's first ban on Islamic face veils took effect Monday in France, meaning that women may bare their breasts in Cannes but not cover their faces on the Champs-Elysees. Two veiled ...

CAIRO -- When Egypt's government banned Islamic veils and all-encompassing robes in the dorms of public universities, it cited reports of men wearing the garb to sneak into the women's quarters. But ...

A campaign to ban the Islamic headscarf from all public schools has resurfaced in Switzerland, pushing a local controversy ...

The ban shows a rare point of agreement between Syria's secular, authoritarian government and the democracies of Europe: Both view the niqab as a potentially destabilizing threat. “We have given ...